First release of the Plant Structure Development Stages Ontology
The Plant Ontology Consortium (www.plantontology.org) is pleased to
announce the first release of the Developmental Ontology for flowering
plants. This ontology is a set of controlled vocabulary ("ontology") terms
that describe the developmental stages of organs and organ systems of a
'generic' flowering plant. The Developmental Ontology supplements
previously-released ontologies that describe anatomy, morphology, and
growth stages of a plant, and is designed for use by plant databases and
researchers to describe the effects of genes, mutations and environmental
permutations on plant structure and growth using a standardized
terminology.
The updated version of the Plant Ontology, which includes the
newly-released Developmental Ontology, can be viewed and queried using
the Plant Ontology AmiGO browser (URL:
http://www.plantontology.org/amigo/).
We hope that Plant Ontology will become a useful tool for the plant
research community, and that diverse groups including plant breeders,
geneticists and researchers involved in large scale genomics projects will
benefit from using this resource.
Please feel free to contact us with your suggestions and requests for new
terms in the Plant Ontology.
Best regards,
Plant Ontology Consortium
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